War is something every leader has to prepare for. We can always hope that it won't reach our lands within our lifetime, but it's precisely what we're here for. And luckily, I've spent most of my life researching just that.

[ He doesn't want to bore Sandry with it, or worse, frighten her with what the vagaries of war have done to his lands and their neighbouring lands, but this too is something Sandry may well have to confront. Hopefully not until she's older, but not all of them can pick and choose. ]

Fodlan had been at piece for nearly four hundred years. But things can change very, very quickly. This war has been going on since I was seventeen, I think it was. [ He glances at Sandry. ] But I hope that your lands remain peaceful for a good, long time.

[ And if they don't -- he hopes she and her siblings will prepare for war. ]